It appears that most Nepali households use generic models of routers that cost about 20 bucks. While they're also available for sale on bestbuy site, there are some that cost 200 dollars. How big of a difference does a router make? Especially in Nepal where most buildings are concrete.

Can someone please recommend a decent one?

I looked at this and I'm really confused. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=tp+link+router&_dyncharset=UTF-8&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&af=true&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys

The quality of router certainly matters. For better coverage around concrete walls, Get a strong router and couple of repeaters to get best coverage.

how so, pepsi?

@Jeremiah: You need to go do some research on what mesh wifi network means. If you are an illiterate when it comes to technology, just get the damn Netgear nighthawk.